Amik Valley

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Amik Valley
Amik Ovası
ٱلْأَعْمَاق
PPNB, Neolithic
Site notes
ConditionRuins
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The Amik Valley (

Arabic: ٱلْأَعْمَاق, romanized: al-ʾAʿmāq) is a plain in Hatay Province, southern Turkey. It is close to the city of Antakya (Antioch on the Orontes River). Along with Dabiq in northwestern Syria, it is believed to be one of two possible sites of the battle of Armageddon according to Islamic eschatology.[2][3][4][5][6]

Archaeological significance

It is notable for a series of

Tell al-Judaidah, Çatalhöyük (not to be confused with Çatalhöyük in Anatolia), Tell Tayinat, Tell Kurdu, Alalakh, and Tell Dhahab.[8] Tell Judaidah was surveyed by Robert Braidwood and excavated by C. MacEwan of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in the 1930s.[9][10]

Lake Amik was an ancient lake in the area, that was located in the centre of Amik Plain.

There is also archaeological evidence for Caspian tigers in this valley (Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Vallino and Guazzo Albergoni, 1978).[11]

Islamic eschatology

In a

companion of the Islamic Nabi (Prophet) Muhammad) reported that Muhammad
said:

The Last Hour would not come until the Romans land at al-A'maq or in Dabiq. An army consisting of the best of the people of Earth at that time will come from Medina (to counteract them).

— Sahih Muslim, Volume 41, Chapter 9, Hadith 6924[12]

Second Coming of Jesus.[16]

References

  1. ^ "Amik Ovası". www.reyhanli.gov.tr. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  2. ^ "MELHAME-İ KÜBRA (ARMAGEDDON) SAVAŞI". Archived from the original on 2015-12-12. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
  3. ^ Amik Ovası ve Armageddon Savaşı (in Turkish)
  4. ^ IŞİD’in nihai hedefi (in Turkish)
  5. ^ "MELHAME-İ KÜBRA / BÜYÜK SAVAŞ" (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2018-05-15. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
  6. ^ Büyük savaş melhamei kübra (in Turkish)
  7. ISBN 9780226621982
    . Retrieved 24 March 2011.
  8. ISBN 9780226621982
    . Retrieved 24 March 2011.
  9. ^ Joseph Ward Swain (1950). The ancient world. Harper. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
  10. ISBN 9789042917354
    . Retrieved 24 March 2011.
  11. doi:10.3897/zookeys.31.170. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help
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  12. ^ Sahih Muslim, per Abu Huraira from Quran/Hadith study site: The Only Quran. Retrieved 16 November 2014
  13. ISBN 9780786480791
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  14. ISBN 9780786480791
    .
  15. ISBN 9781861797667
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  16. ^ Sonn (2004) p. 209

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